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--> FAMILY Moschidae
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SPECIES Moschus berezovskii
| Author: | Flerov, 1928. | | Actual Date: | 1929 | | Citation: | C. R. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., 1928A: 519. | | Common Name: | Forest Musk Deer | | Type Locality: | "Mountain défilé [sic] Ho-tzi-how, environs of town Lun-ngan-fu, Sze-chuan, China" (China, Sichuan, near Lungan, Ho-tsi-how Pass). | | Distribution: | S and C China (Shaanxi to Yunnan, and S Tibet) and N Vietnam. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered in Tibet and Yunnan (China); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Revised by Wang et al (1993). A well-defined species sharply distinct from the parapatric or marginally sympatric M. chrysogaster; see Kao (1963), Groves (1976), and Grubb (1982a), yet treated as a synonym of M. moschiferus sifanicus (= M. chrysogaster sifanicus) by Sokolov and Prikhod'ko (1997). |
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